Re: vocab #2.2

Aidan Grey wrote:

>Good job to everyone who did last weeks'! Keep up the good work!
Houseguests prevented me from working on #2.1, but I will, I will.......(am
especially curious to see how "say-something hat" comes out in Kash)


>1. whoever.... kaç 'person'
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>Whoever stole my wallet is going to die!
kaç re yananjul pacimbi, nan mapakran!
person REL he-stole purse-my, him(acc) I-kill
(literal ........poro yahorem '.....he's going to die'  somehow seems to
imply that my purse has odd lethal qualities)
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>2. Which.....lani
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>Which one do you like better?
lani halalisam 'which (thing) you-prefer?
lanin .....   'which (person).......'
Without thinking, one might say:  lani lavi halisam (which more you-like)--
but _lalisam_ 'prefer' is already a compd. of lavi and lisam
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>3. scale
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>What kind of bathroom scale do you have?
kandraya ekanjat yale ri atetroçindi?
what-kind scale  there-is LOC bathroom-your

>How many scales are there on a trout?
nundivek, fiyan nafeçni?  OR(bookish):  fiyan nafeç yale nundiveke?
"long-fish", how-many scales-its?    how-many scales there-is
long-fish(dat.)


>Someone scaled the wall silently.
kaç yaçindar ñeraka kumo-kumor
person he-climb wall silent(redupl)
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>4. throat.....katakur (agt.noml. < sakur 'swallow')
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>My throat hurt, so I guessed I had some kind of infection.
katakumbri (me) yahar, ende çañukmi, yale acangi naya yuni
throat-my (me/dat.) it-hurts, and-so suppose-my, there-is sickness kind
something
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>5. set.....kakambro '(largish) set of matching things'
>Every one of the dish sets was chipped
pipinal kakambro yamatraci  OR pipinal kakambroni angoç yamatraci
every  set        it-is cracked                    set-of it   bowls

>Everytime he sets the table, he forgets the spoons.
anju-anju yaharam lacani, yacuta lelenupuç
whenever he-prepares table/its, he-forget spoons
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>6. slight
>Whenever her son has a slight cough, she takes him to the doctor.
anju-anju anayeni voko pici-picik, ne yafilan ri kandumi
whenever child(dat.)-her cough little(redup.), him she-takes LOC
doctor(gen.) (i.,e. "at/to (place/home of) doctor")
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>7. upstairs
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>When we play hide-and-seek, sometimes I like to hide upstairs.
anju mipanip furi-finja, yale anju re malisam mafurik ri vitani puna
when we-play h&s, there-is time CONJ I-like I-hide LOC up-its house
OR, more colloq/childish--
anju mifuri-finja, nunu mafurik ri vita
when we-h&s, often I-hide LOC up
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>8. reduce.....rumomban ('make less', caus. of omban 'less')
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>He needs to reduce the number of cigarettes he smokes.
sanjeni, yanjayi rumomban atambatni sigaroç are yafuma
necessary-its, he-ought reduce quantity-its cigs. REL he-smoke
Borrowings!! the Kash don't routinely smoke anything.  Lucky them.......
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>9. care....rumbola 'value, appreciate s.t.', caus. of mola 'valuable')
>No one cares about him.
ta yale kaç re ne yarumbola
not there-is person REL him(dat.) he-appreciates/values
More formal:  tapes kaç ne yarumbola 'not-one person him appreciates'
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>10. imagination....añaçañuk(e), < çañuk(e) 'to imagine, suppose; fantasize'
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>I never had the imagination you have.
talunda ta me yale añaçañuk orandi hate
never not to-me(dat.) there-is imagination like to-you(dat.)
Possibly too:  ........orandi iyuti '......like that-of you(gen)
The double negative makes it more emphatic.
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